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The former non league winger had spurned a couple of presentable opportunities in the first half at the Alan Biggs Centre.

Undeterred he kept plugging away, continued to put himself in the right positions and four minutes into the second half he was on the spot to prod home George O’Neill’s cross.

If at first you don’t succeed...

The goal came a couple of months after he successfully completed a trial and earned himself a contract until June 2018.

That contract was renewed in March 2018 ensuring he'll stay at the club until at least June 2019.

Birmingham City winger Olly McCoy

But like one of his mazy runs the youngster’s route to professional football has not been straightforward, as he revealed last year.

He is not one of the gilded few who have known the luxuries of an elite academy since primary school, instead McCoy has had to come back from rejection and prove himself in the uncompromising world of men’s football in the Southern League.

“I have had knockdowns but the group of boys back at Beaconsfield helped me and supported me and my family said ‘Just keep going, if it pays off, it pays off’,” McCoy said.

“I was at Stoke for a week before coming here, I’ve been at Cystal Palace, Charlton and Brentford when I was 16-17 and they didn’t work out.